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Hermine Grows as She Approaches Florida Panhandle
Tropical Storm Hermine is soon to be Hurricane Hermine as winds spin up and the pressure continues to drop. The good news is that Hermine is approaching land with landfall likely sometime later today. At 10 a.m. Hermine was located at 27.4N 86.0W, about 275 miles SSW of Apalachicola, with sustained winds of 60 knots […]
Hermine???? Updated
A quick update with more to follow as needed. Hurricane Hunter aircraft out of Tampa are in Tropical Depression #9 and it appears we now have a tropical storm. Incoming data shows a wide swath of winds at or above 40 knots in the eastern semicircle, which would make the system easily at tropical storm […]
99L Lives to Fight Another Day
Just a short note tonight as not much has really changed since yesterday, other than 99L continues to fight for life. It is more impressive today as thunderstorms have continued to regenerate near the center, though are not yet sustaining themselves. Models are pretty much unchanged for the most part, just waiting to see if, […]
99L Update Delayed
I will be updating the progress of 99L today but will hold off until later this afternoon for a couple of reasons. First, 99L has shown signs of life over the past few hours with big storms starting to go up around the center. I want to see of these persist, as there is still […]
99L is a Fighter: Next 36 hours make the difference!
Here is the Thursday update on the “little system that could,” good ole Invest 99L. If anything, the system looks worse than it did yesterday at this time. But there are some subtle signs things may be about to change. First off there is now a low-level closed circulation obvious on the visible satellite images. […]